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Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

By MARC LEVY and KAITLYN HUAMANI
Oct 23, 2026 1:30 pm - With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America's technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server warehouses.
Rush is on to patch AI-discovered software vulnerability that could impact 70% of websites worldwide

By The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2026 7:59 am - Governments and corporations worked throughout the night to update software after the AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a programming language vital to about 70% of websites globally.
Ukraine's strikes on Russian data centers disrupt key services and derail AI research

By The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2026 7:03 am - Some of the key data centers at the heart of Russia’s technical prowess have been knocked out by Ukrainian drone attacks in the 4 1/2-year-old full-scale invasion, suffering damage that could take a long time to repair.
Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

By MIKELLA SCHUETTLER
Oct 21, 2026 1:24 pm - A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook.
AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Oct 19, 2026 11:26 am - Many have welcomed AI agents into their online lives, and raved about how personalized assistants like Muse can handle everyday tasks with ease — from snagging a dinner reservation or planning a trip, to organizing email inboxes. But like other AI bots, the agents are only as good as the information they have access to. They perform better the more they know about a user — and perhaps also that person’s friends, family and even colleagues. That raises privacy concerns.
Gov. JB Pritzker says Illinois housing plan likely waits but Bears stadium and data center bills alive

By Olivia Olander
Oct 16, 2026 11:37 am - Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday cast doubt on his ambitious housing program passing in the short fall legislative session but indicated optimism about legislation to regulate data centers and support a new Bears stadium to be located in the suburbs or even stay in Chicago.
Fed chair Warsh says price stability is key but shies away from signals about rates

By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Oct 16, 2026 8:07 am - Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said Friday he won’t prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do about interest rates at its upcoming meetings in October and December.
IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI

By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Oct 07, 2026 8:20 am - Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head of the IMF said Wednesday.
Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, two other states

By John Lippert
Oct 06, 2026 12:46 pm - Constellation Energy, the largest U.S. nuclear provider, agreed Tuesday to invest $4.3 billion to increase output at 11 nuclear plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and then sell this additional power to Google over a 20-year period.
What does the data say about data centers?

By Frank Manzo IV
Oct 05, 2026 8:20 am - People everywhere are talking about data centers, the high-tech facilities that house our nations growing digital infrastructure.

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